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"Madam President, the Vice-President/High Representative and Elmar Brok deserve congratulations on making a lot out of very little. There is hardly an area of the world, apparently, where EU intervention is not seen as the most vital contribution and the solution to all problems. It is almost as if no other international organisation or government exists.
The CFSP report’s favourite mantra is ‘human rights’. They are mentioned 43 times, as if they are some sort of unique prerogative of the European Union. Our friends are ignored or get scant mention. That great democracy and emerging power, India, is reduced to three lines in a report of 30 pages. Another emerging power, Turkey, gets similar treatment. No positive engagement, no mention of all the positive changes that have taken place, of the support it needs in dealing with the refugee influx from Syria, or of the potentially key role it plays in the region. We see the old sore of a UN Security Council seat reopened, and now the curious idea is raised of an EU-US transatlantic political council explicitly to run in parallel with NATO. The world is moving on, while the EU seems to live in some sort of bubble. It needs radical change."@en1
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